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Kelly Engineering Resources – Future Engineers Scholarship 2010

Scholarship Purpose:
The Kelly Engineering Resources® Future Engineers Scholarship is designed to encourage student interest in engineering and to build awareness of engineering as a career path with unlimited potential. The purpose is to alleviate a critical current and future shortage of highly qualified engineers.

General Guidelines:
Kelly Engineering Resources will award an undergraduate scholarship to one outstanding student in December, 2009 for use toward eligible expenses for tuition, fees, books, and room and board during the 2010 calendar year. The award will be made on the basis of merit to students who will hold Sophomore or Junior status during the 2010 calendar year. Criteria for consideration includes providing documented proof/verification of acceptance into the College of Engineering, outstanding potential to excel and an intention to pursue a career in the field of engineering. Scholarships will not be awarded to Freshman or those Seniors, who will be graduating on or before June, 2010.
In awarding the scholarship, the Kelly Engineering Review Committee will consider the candidate’s field of study and career objectives and the extent to which that individual has the commitment and potential to make a significant contribution to his or her field.

Conditions of Eligibility:
To be considered for eligibility for the Future Engineers Scholarship, a student must:

• Be a full-time student at the time of application submittal, pursuing a degree at an accredited institution of higher education in the United States during the 2009 calendar year, and be accepted into the School of Engineering. Scholarships will not be awarded to Freshman or Seniors who will be graduating on or before June 2010.
• Have a college cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 3.0 or higher on a 4.0 scale (or 3.5 on a 4.5 scale, and so forth).
• Be a United States citizen, a resident alien, or in the case of candidates from American Samoa or the Commonwealth of the Mariana Islands, a United States national. Submissions from resident aliens must include a letter of the candidate’s intent to obtain U.S. citizenship and a photocopy of the Alien Registration Card.

Submission Materials:
The application materials can be downloaded from the Kelly Engineering Resources website (www. kellyengineering.com/scholarships). Materials must be submitted on the official forms provided and mailed to the program administrator by the October 15, 2009 deadline.

Submissions must include:
• Candidate Background Information Form, which affirms the candidate’s wish to be considered for the scholarship; provides biographical information about the candidate’s background, interests, and plans; and provides a statement that describes the candidate’s intent to enter an appropriate career in engineering and specifies how the student’s educational plans will provide preparation for that career.
• Candidate’s Essay must be between 800 and 1200 words, typed using Arial or Times New Roman in size 12 font, written by the student and answers a specific question posed by Kelly Engineering Resources. A printed version of the essay is required as well as a copy on a 3-1/2” floppy disk or CD in Microsoft Word. Please use a Windows 95 or higher version (IBM format). Essay must be written by the candidate and should not have appeared in any publication other than in school publications. Essays are limited to one per candidate.
• Two Independent Evaluations of the candidate. The candidate must secure letters of recommendation from either two field-related faculty members from a college or university attended, or one faculty member and an individual who has supervised his or her work in a field-related facility.
• College transcripts (altered or photocopies will not be accepted) from the candidate’s current institution and other institutions he or she has attended.

Submission Deadline:
Kelly Engineering Resource must receive all application materials no later than October 15, 2009, with all required supporting documents. Any essays postmarked after October 15th will not be considered.

Selection Procedures Initial Evaluation:
The Kelly Engineering Resources Review Committee will evaluate all valid nominations and recommend the most outstanding candidates for consideration by the Executive Review Committee.

Candidates are evaluated on:
• Demonstrated potential for and commitment to a career in engineering.
• Outstanding academic performance.
• Depth of knowledge and awareness of the issue and/or challenge addressed, as well as creativity, composition and originality.

Final Selection:
From among the candidates recommended by the Kelly Engineering Resources Review Committee, the Executive Review Committee will name the final Future Engineers Scholar.

Payment of Scholarship Awards:
The $5,000 scholarship award will be made payable directly to the scholar’s college or university in January, 2010.
Payments from the Kelly Engineering Resources Future Engineers Scholarship fund may supplement, but not duplicate, benefits from another foundation, institution, or organization. In other words, the benefits from all sources combined may not exceed the costs of tuition, fees, books, and room and board for the academic year. The scholar must notify the Kelly Engineering Resources promptly of any changes that occur during the year in his or her academic status.

First week of Jan. 2010: Award presentation to winner

Previous Kelly Engineering Scholarship Winners
2004 – Christopher Fessler – University of Missouri
2005 – Sean Tabone – Stevens Institute of Technology
2006 – Andrew Longenecker – Duke University
2007 – Daniel Wilson – Colorado State University
2008 – Michaelle Mayalu – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2009 – Kate Anne Whitacre – Indiana Institute of Technology

Source: http://www.kellyengineering.us/res/content/us/ker/en/docs/appendix_e_info_form_2010.pdf